From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018100920233479417-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I've used it years ago. Don't have a version now.  I'd want the polyphonic   
   > version .... it's a bit pricey.  I'd have to have a serious reason to go   
   > there.   
      
   I'm sure things have improved over the  years. But in any case, I may soon   
   be finding out because I often prefer to listen to isolated tracks when   
   learning songs, which would require the software to use signal analysis   
   algorithms sufficient for literally reconstructing the tracks *accurately*,   
   and there's the key word!   
      
   I'd suspect that such algorithms would have to be able to literally   
   recognize waveforms for their unique timbral (spectral) and other   
   characteristics, like the ADSR amplitude modulation envelope, and any   
   frequency modulation that may go with that, with such a high degree of   
   resolution as to be able to differentiate and discern them from other sounds   
   and thus be able to reconstruct the track of guitars, bass, keyboards,   
   drums, vocal, etc., or any other sound - a major task but this is where   
   computers shine, and why they're called computers in the first place - they   
   thoroughly excel at computing, crunching numbers at incredible speeds - all   
   it'll take is the right instructions in those algorithms to make it   
   work...I'm hoping!   
      
   > Midi is a useful format for many things.   
      
   Of course, it is after all an Interface - so often that seems to be   
   forgotten.   
   I'd like to see it developed far beyond its current capabilities.   
   But first, it should be Fully used to its present capabilities ;)   
      
   > One issue with it is that it is so keyboard centric.   
      
   That's probably because that's how it started out - TIME TO EXPAND FURTHER!   
      
   > In the sense that it's easy to make midi files by playing a keyboard. It's   
   > not easy at all if you're a guitarist or violinist.   
      
   Technology Needs to be *Applied* to that issue!   
   I like to think of it as "high resolution midi" , maybe it'd be called   
   "MIDI2" ;)   
   Since the midi acronym is for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, then it   
   should Honestly Interface with ALL Musical Instruments!   
      
   > If what you're after is an accurate representation of some acoustic   
   > instrument, then play that instrument.  If you play an instrument and are   
   > interested in using it to control synths, or transcribing music, or other   
   > things I can't think of now, then midi becomes a tool you need.   
      
   JimD   
      
   Which means the instrument's characteristic parameters must be scanned in   
   real time, in such a way as to capture those parameters in very high   
   resolution, maybe with some kind of laser pickup, and be able to encode   
   those parameters using an enhanced form of midi capable of using them.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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